 Welcome back fellow techies, and today's video is something different. It's the tech talks. Episode 3. And today we're going to be talking about which screen capturing software to use. And the real question is, which everyone keeps asking, which one do we pick? There's so many out there and so many do all sorts of different things. Well, we're here to have a discussion about them today. Well, we have some free ones. We have some expensive ones. And we have some ones that just do some basic editing and some basic techniques. Some that work on PC, some that work on Mac, some that work on both. I'll be giving my opinion on the views of the softwares. Everyone's opinion is slightly different. So let's get started with today's video. The first bit of software we're going to be talking about is OBS Studio. OBS is open broadcast software. OBS allows you to set up scenes and do insert different sources and record desktop audio, microphone audio, music, etc. You can start recording, you can stream, you can go to studio mode, you can do all sorts. It is mainly used by YouTubers or online gamers where they can set up different scenes within their program. It's used on Twitch so you can insert motion bits, drop in, you can insert all sorts as different sources. It's perfect if you want to do a screen recording and involve a webcam. It's on Windows, Mac and Linux. It's a free bit of software that works with all sorts of different games and different bits of software. It's really, really useful for a really powerful for recording and editing. It doesn't edit. It allows you to export out in so many different video formats. You can then edit it in all the free video softwares or if you want to be a bit more advanced, you can edit it in advanced softwares. It's perfect to do durations from the scenes. Very, very good to do all that sort of stuff. You can set up all sorts of different previews. For example, TV broadcasting. They could use this sort of bit of software to do high level productions with eight different scene monitors and you can flick between them and it's really, really useful, really, really high end stuff bit of software and it is free. I can't stress enough how much, how good the software is for being free for all the operating systems and everything it does and it's free. There's nothing else out there that's as good as OBS Studio. The next bit of software we're going to be talking about is QuickTime Player. Now, everyone feels QuickTime Player is only used to play movies. Now, QuickTime Player is really advanced for a free bit of software. It can screen record. It can audio record. You can record the screen with audio at the same time. It's brilliant. It works on Windows and Mac. It is free. It's not as advanced as OBS, but it allows you to do a screen recording with, if you've got a built-in microphone or you've got a webcam, it allows you to do the recording with a built-in microphone. Basically, you can't capture your webcam and screen at the same time. You can just capture your screen with audio and it works really, really well. Most of my videos are recorded by a QuickTime Player because it's so simple to use. All you've got to do is enable the recording. Job done. If you've got two screens enabled, it works really well. You can just select which screen you want to record. Screen one, you just click on the screen you want to record and job done. It's that. It's recording. It works super well for just doing some basic recording with audio or without audio and it is free. Again, it is free for Windows and Mac. I don't see why you wouldn't want to download OBS and QuickTime Player. You might as well use both of them if you're struggling. You can do tutorials on OBS whilst recording on QuickTime Player or you can do tutorials on QuickTime Player whilst recording on OBS. There's no harm in having both of them. They're free and they're only small files, so don't take up much room on your computer. The next bit of software we're going to be talking about is Adobe Captivate 2019 release. Now, this is quite recent release, this one, as we're in 2020, so it's only about a year ago. It allows you to have two different options. You can buy it for $33.96 a month, a bit of an odd number, but you can buy it per month and pay monthly installments to Adobe or you can purchase the free trial, which I think is 30 days, but it gives you an option to have a trial run with it first. Adobe Captivate allows you to set up all sorts of different recordings. It allows you to do a live seminar, allows you to do PowerPoints, allows you to convert PowerPoints, convert movies, edit movies. It's a bit of a jack-of-all-trades bit of software, really. It allows you to also, as they call it, screencast or screen record, as we call it in the modern terms. With basically, you can screen record your data, you can record your microphone, you can record your webcam, and you can record your screen. Now, it's a bit like OBS. Obviously, you can see in this image here your basic functionality. You can flip through your slides, you can record. You can do all sorts of different things. With Adobe Captivate, though, it's not free. You have to pay for it. It's £39, basically £34, compared to OBS or even QuickTime Player. Why would you? Why would you want to pay Adobe to buy a product which you can get for free? OBS, QuickTime, free. Why would you want to move on to something you have to pay for when OBS is so good in what it does? There's no need to go to Adobe Captivate. If you're a complete Adobe fan and you really want to use Adobe Captivate, try it. Do the free trial. Have a look at it. Obviously, the features of Adobe Captivate is quite good. It does all sorts of things like we mentioned previously. All these different options down here. You can be ready to go slides. You can do copy and paste appearances, 360-degree experiences. You can PowerPoint to mobile learning. You can convert PowerPoint to all these extra options. As you can see, I'm scrolling through all these different options. They do all sorts. The main one I look out for is what we tend to be talking about in this video, a smart video recording and webcams. You can do the webcam and the screen at the same time. When you're doing a seminar or when you're doing a lecture and you want someone to see you, brilliant. If you want to do a game, capture, brilliant. With your webcam, absolutely fantastic. A lot of gamers out there want to use webcams with this screen capturing so they can see their response. They can see the audience can see what's going on in the perspective of the performer. Great. But it's £34. Why would you? Just why? It can do all these extra things. Yeah, brilliant. But if you get OBS on a Mac, you've got iMovie for free. So you can edit your videos separately. You don't need all this extra stuff. But if you want it, then brilliant. You can have it. It's perfect for e-learning. It's perfect for all sorts of stuff. The next bit of software we're going to be talking about is another three-bit of software called FreeCam. Now, FreeCam has a free version with no watermark or you can upgrade to the pro version. Now, the free version works on Windows only. So this is not non-Mac compatible. Windows only. You can record your screen as it says down here. Record your screen. You can highlight your mouse moves. You can record your voiceovers and you can record your sound system all at the same time. Brilliant. But it doesn't record webcam. So if you only want to screen capture and speak over it, perfect. Bit like tutorials. Absolutely fine. FreeCam is your software you want to use. Or QuickTime player. Or again, OBS. Entirely up to you. FreeCam is free. You sign up with your email address. You agree. You download it. Leave no watermarks. Needs no or time limit. It's entirely up to you. You can record as long as you want. And it gives you the option to trim your videos so you can edit in FreeCam too. So it's a bit like an editing bit of software as well as a recording bit of software. Perfect. Once you've recorded your video, you can also upload it straight to YouTube. So if you really wanted to, you can make it straight to YouTube. Now, FreeCam only exports its files in a WMV format. You can't do any other format. WMV is Windows Movie Player. It'll play it in Windows Movie Player. You can't play those on Mac. FreeCam only works on PC. So why would you want to put it in different formats? You might as well keep it in that format. Upload it straight to YouTube if you're happy with it. You can upload your NTU YouTube account and sync it with your FreeCam. Perfect. Once you've edited in FreeCam as well. So you can do all sorts of stuff within FreeCam. It is free as well on PC. If you want to go pro, you can record your webcam and screen, add annotation, hotkey links and export as an MP4. Now MP4 obviously is a higher format than WMV. You might as well stay with either, you can use QuickTime Player on PC remember, or OBS. So you've got three bits of software we've already mentioned so far. OBS, QuickTime Player and FreeCam, which you can screen capture on. Two of them you can't do. Webcams, one of them you can. Sometimes you might want to do a webcam. A bit more unact without a webcam. It's entirely up to you. Have a little play. Have a download FreeCam. Have a little look. It is, like I said, entirely free. You just got to register your email account and press agree and then download it. Unlimited time. Perfect. The final bit of software we're going to be talking about today is Fill More Screen. Now it's another screen recording bit of software. This allows you to screen record up to two devices. It is Mac and PC compatible. You can do a free download, but I think you only get a certain amount of time with the free download. So you only can record for a certain time as a trial run basically. I'm not, I'm unsure if it leads to watermarks. You have to be prepared if it does. But as I said, there's three other softwares we mentioned previously. OBS, QuickTime and FreeCam that record without watermarks. But you can try this one. You can also buy it when you purchase this. You can purchase it for $19.99 for a year or a lifetime for a £10 more. You might as well buy a £10 more for a lifetime support. For the software. So it's basically $30. It can, like I said before, it can do two devices. You can record your screen and a webcam simultaneously. You can have a full editing suite at the same time. You can also add effects to your video. And it does 15 to 120 FPS, the frames per second. Really, really useful. Really modern. Looks quite sleek actually. Good bit of software, but you have to be aware you don't, you may not get the same functionality as you do the other three bits of software we mentioned before. OBS obviously way up there. You can do all sorts of different things with OBS compared to this. Now at this down here, the features, you have a full editing suite, 50 file format import. You can export into three different formats. So far it mentions you may be more, you can custom record fields. So you can select different parts of your computer you want to record. It's got tutorial features so you can circle your arrows around things. So you can, when you're talking about things, the audience can see obviously because you can't point at it. You're going to have to use your mouse. Picture in picture so you can do editing and main footage and face cams and all sorts. It's a good bit of software for being free. But I'm not sure, like I said, about the watermark. You need to be aware of that and about maybe purchasing it. So I'm not sure, obviously the time limit on recordings needs to check it all out. It's again, not a bit of free software from Wondershare. We've mentioned Fillmore before on the film editing side. This is the Fillmore Scream. So you obviously has the film editing side functions. It's a basic and add on to the product. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like the video if you enjoyed it and subscribe for more and also ding dong that notification bell to get further updates. Thanks again. Goodbye.